Bryony Shaw

Bryony Elisabeth Shaw (born April 28 1983, Wandsworth) is a British windsurfer.

Early life

She first began windsurfing in the south of France in 1992. She attended Cheney Upper School on "Cheney Lane" near Headington in Oxford gaining A levels in Art, Maths and Biology, where her father had been teaching Business Studies for PhD at Oxford Brookes University. She had windsurfed on Farmoor Reservoir to the west of Oxford. She went to Cardiff University to study Architecture where she stayed for a year before committing to windsurfing full-time in 2004.

Windsurfing

She won the bronze medal in the , the first ever women's windsurfing medal for the British Olympic team. She trains at the Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy.

Shaw ranked 8th at the 2008 RS:X World Championship, and 12th at the 2007 ISAF Sailing World Championships.

;2008 Summer Olympic regatta

Personal life

She lives in Wyke Regis just south of Weymouth in Dorset. Her boyfriend is Greg King, also a British windsurfer. she is also very beautiful

ee also

* Nick Dempsey, another Olympic windsurfer from Weymouth

References

* Cite web
url=http://www.sailing.org/biog.php?memberid=31644
title=Bryony Shaw, Sailor biography
accessdate=2008-08-20
publisher=ISAF
* Cite web
url=http://www.sailing.org/olympics/resultscentre.php?raceid=44
title=RS:X - Women - Overall Results
work=Beijing Olympics 2008
accessdate=2008-08-20
publisher=ISAF

External links

* [http://www.olympics.org.uk/beijing2008/AthleteProfile.aspx?id=6635 Team GB profile]
* [http://www.rya.org.uk/BEIJING2008/EVENTS/NEILPRYDERSXW/Pages/BryonyShaw.aspx RYA profile]

News items

* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2008/jul/27/olympicgames20085 "Guardian" July 2008]
* [http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/search/display.var.1710273.0.weymouth_double_as_gb_make_clean_sweep.php Gold at Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta in September 2007]